N.Y. Town Law § 175-a: Registration for voters

§ 175-a. Registration for voters. 1. The board of fire commissioners

of any fire district may provide by resolution, that a proposition be

submitted at any annual fire district election providing that additional

personal registration of voters not registered with the board of

elections shall be permitted for all elections in such fire district.

Such additional personal registration may be terminated by a resolution

of the board of fire commissioners and the passage of a proposition at

any annual fire district election.

2. Registration for all fire district elections shall be conducted as

follows:

(a) Only those persons registered with the board of elections on or

before the twenty-third day before such election and those persons whose

names are placed on the fire district register pursuant to the

provisions of this section shall be entitled to vote in such district.

(b) In fire districts in which there is additional personal

registration, the board of fire commissioners shall publish a resolution

at least twenty-seven days prior to election day, which shall designate

the dates prior to registration day on which the inspectors of election

shall meet to commence the preparation of the register; the place in

each fire district where such meetings, registration, if any, and

election shall be held; the hours for such meetings, registration, if

any, and election; but in no event shall the hours for registration be

less than the hours from six o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock

in the evening. Such resolution shall be adopted at least thirty days

prior to election day.

(c) In a fire district whose electors have approved additional

personal registration, such registration shall be held on the

seventeenth day prior to the annual fire district election, except in

those fire districts which provide by resolution adopted at least

thirty-seven days prior to the date of the first election for which it

shall be effective, for an additional day of registration to be held on

the nineteenth day prior to the annual fire district election. Such

resolution shall remain in effect for subsequent annual elections,

unless amended, modified or repealed.

3. The register for the annual fire district election shall be

prepared in each fire district by the inspectors of election thereof on

the days prior to registration day, if any, designated therefor, on the

registration day, if any, at the times and places designated by the

resolution of the board of fire commissioners. In preparing such

register, the inspectors of election shall comply with the following

procedure:

(a) They shall adopt, use or copy from, the registration list

certified and supplied by the county board of elections the names

appearing thereon of all persons residing in the fire district and

qualified to vote in such forthcoming annual fire district election and

in those instances in which additional persons are entitled to register

pursuant to this section, such register shall be completed by adding

thereto the names of the persons personally appearing before them and

providing to their satisfaction to then be or at the time of election

qualified to vote.

(b) The register for each fire district shall include as a minimum the

space for the name of the voter, his address within the fire district

and a space for his or her signature to be signed by the voter on

election day. Such register shall also contain a space for the signature

of the voter to be signed by such voter on registration day, if any. If

the register shall contain only space for the name, address and

signature of the voter, the fire district secretary shall furnish a

printed certificate to be signed by the voter who appears personally

before the inspectors of election on registration day if his name does

not already appear on the register. Such certificate shall contain a

statement that the person possesses all the necessary qualifications for

voting in fire district elections. Such certificate shall be accepted

for all purposes as the equivalent of an affidavit, and if it contains a

material false statement, shall subject the person signing it to the

same penalty as if he had been duly sworn, and such provision shall be

printed in bold type directly above the signature line of the

certificate.

4. The fire district secretary shall furnish the inspectors of

election, at fire district expense, with all necessary registration

books, papers, equipment and supplies.

5. Registration for special fire district elections shall be held in

the same manner as is provided herein for annual fire district

elections, and registration days therefor shall be the same as if said

special fire district election were the annual fire district election.

6. In lieu of the provisions for designating the chairman, election

inspectors and ballot clerks, as set forth in subdivision one of section

one hundred seventy-five of this chapter, the board of fire

commissioners shall, by resolution adopted at least forty days prior to

the annual fire district election, designate a resident fire district

elector to act as chairman of any election of said district and shall

designate not less than two nor more than four resident fire district

electors to act as election inspectors and ballot clerks in such

election. Such resolution shall fix the compensation of the chairman and

inspectors and, in addition, the board of fire commissioners may provide

for alternate inspectors who shall assume the office of inspector upon

the inability or refusal of an inspector to assume or perform his duties

and for any clerical help which they may deem necessary. Such clerical

help shall perform their duties under the direction and control of the

chairman and inspectors of election.